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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
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Grow the pie: Podcast revenue seems to be growing fast enough for everyone to get a slicePlus: Google’s latest table-stakes move, Stuff You Should Know sets a record, and In The Dark keeps blowing up. By Nicholas Quah. |
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Canada’s The Logic is a new subscription news outlet focused on the innovation economy, à la The Information“Is it a tech story? Is it a business and tech or policy and politics story, is it a cultural story? Well, it's actually all the above: The impact of technology on the cognitive, economic, and political ways we live is quite transformative.” By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
Axios / Sara Fischer
Will newspapers be freed from click-through dependency by AI? Maybe. →
“Some campaigns [ based on AI ] are up to 70% more efficient. On average, most campaigns are 35% more efficient … There are real results coming out of that.”
Business Insider / Lauren Johnson
Publishers are seeing huge traffic spikes from Flipboard, but no one really knows why →
Parse.ly has seen a 260 percent increase in Flipboard traffic between May 2018 and 2017, but where is the traffic coming from? “Since 2014, Flipboard has only reported adding 20 million monthly active users, growing from 80 million to ‘more than 100 million.’ According to Flipboard, the company is zeroing in on engagement stats like how many people open up articles from its platform instead of focusing on the number of overall users.”
Washington Post / David Montgomery
Who is Laurene Powell Jobs, and what does her Emerson Collective want with journalism? →
“By cosmic coincidence, the Atlantic was co-founded in 1857 by none other than Ralph Waldo Emerson. But the Atlantic isn't the collective's only media investment. It has given grants to organizations including ProPublica, the Marshall Project and the Texas Observer, and invested in companies like Axios, OZY Media and Gimlet Media (a narrative podcasting company).”
Hollywood Reporter / Lesley Goldberg
An eight-episode series of The New York Times’ Modern Love column is coming to Amazon Studios →
“Since its launch 14 years ago, Modern Love has struck a chord with readers that has only deepened with time,” said Sam Dolnick, assistant managing editor at The New York Times. “It remains one of our most popular columns both online and in print; it has become a successful weekly podcast; and the first Modern Love events last year were hits with live audiences. And now we are thrilled that Modern Love will become a TV show on Amazon.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Andrea Wenzel, Anthony Nadler, Melissa Valle, Marc Lamont Hill
“A journalist should step correct”: Building trust in local news →
“We knew these specific projects—which were built on community traditions—would not directly suit the needs a neighborhood in Philly. But we wanted to explore whether the process of assessing community needs and then engaging members to address them was portable, and what would emerge from transposing it to urban and suburban Philadelphia.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
U.S. media businesses have become collateral damage in Trump’s trade wars →
Movies in China, newsprint from Canada, NAFTA and data standards.
Poynter / Tiffany Lew
Struggling public media in Europe are under attack from right-wing politicians →
“Public media has been totally conquered by the government since 2010," said Daniel Renyi, a journalist at 444.hu in Hungary. "Now they have four channels to communicate the rhetoric of the government. It’s just full-time government propaganda."
DFM Workers / Julie Reynolds
A look at Alden Global Capital’s investors — including, in the past, the Knight Foundation →
"We invested approximately one half of one percent of our endowment in an Alden fund between late 2009 and early 2014," a Knight spokesperson said.
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Publishers protest Facebook’s transparency efforts, which can classify news content as political ads →
"It's the quintessential big tech echo chamber and the antithesis of the transparency they have promised us." But Facebook says an “exemption or whitelist would directly negate the new levels of transparency we're trying to achieve."